Where are the honest officials?

What is up with our elected officials? Since President Obama took office and then started trying to fill his cabinet it seems that every person he appointed to a position either had not paid some back taxes, or had other legal problems. Don't we have any honest elected officials in this country? They stated that they did not know that they had to pay the taxes or that whatever the problem was that they had done nothing wrong. The statement "Oh, I am so sorry for what happened" seems to make it all right. There is a statement that I have heard all my life that has to do with the laws of this country; that is "ignorance of the law is no excuse." In other words, they should have known better, and second they are the people who submit and vote on these laws so really they have no excuse.

Our elected officials are " should be " and will be held to a higher standard. If it is against the law for me it is against the law for them. This is a good example of having too many laws on the books. It is time to stop writing new laws, start enforcing the ones we have and change the ones that aren't working. Maybe then we all will know right from wrong.

William Sweetwood

Carson City